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Exploring images of textual encounters in books 1 and 2 of Gertrude of Helfta's Legatus, this article argues that Gertrude articulates a reading practice that attends to the bodies that produce and receive written texts. Using images that conjoin inscription and embodiment, Gertrude encourages readers to imagine a physical encounter with the divine through the medium of the text. Gertrude herself models the inseparability of cognitive and embodied activity in reading and textual activity, and her work foregrounds textual engagement as a means of achieving divine union.

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Interpersonal trust and cooperative relationships are essential in workplace and social settings. Interpersonal trust is an attitude that reflects a willingness to be vulnerable to another person based on the expectation that he or she will act benevolently. A trust violation occurs when an individual’s expectations about the way a person would act have not been met. According to self‐affirmation theory, people are motivated to protect their sense of self‐worth. If someone experiences a threat to their self in one domain, they can satisfy the self‐affirmation motive by affirming an aspect of their identity in a different domain. The purpose of this study is to look at how self‐affirmation influences trust violation and repair. I examine whether engaging in a self‐affirming activity, prior to or following a trust violation, increases an individual’s subsequent trusting behaviour. Participants share personal information and complete an obstacle course task with a confederate to develop trust. They then play a money game in which the confederate breaks participants’ trust by sharing less money than expected with the participant. In two conditions participants complete an affirming writing task either prior to or following the violation; in two other conditions, they complete a non affirming writing activity prior to or following the violation. There is also a no writing control condition. Subsequent trusting behaviour and attitudes are measured using questionnaires and tasks. This research identifies factors that help manage trust violation and restore trust, which is essential to effective relationships in the workplace.

Csenge Kolozsvari, "Bodylandscapes I." (10:58). A proposition for remembering the ecological ways of belonging, a feeling into other ways of knowing, connecting into the vastness that surrounds us and moves across us, becoming-environment once again. // Anja Plonka, Marko Stefanovic, and Rasmus Nordholt-Frieling, "Breathing Gaia: Searching for Kinship Around Walensee" (8:28). The video essay creates a speculative-utopian body and existence of human and non-human. The body as an archive of traumatic inscriptions practices transformation as a being in resonance with Gaia. // Jessica Marion Barr, Jenn Cole, and LA Alfonso, "Our Bodies, These Lands: Practising Reciprocity" (6:03). As artist-researchers with embodied practices and relationships with lands and waters, we explore a unique part of Michi Saagig Nishnaabeg territory wherein “rockmills” or “kettles” offer spaces for our human selves to be held and surrounded by massive ancient rock beings. // Alessandro Guglielmo, "Wisdom and Trouble: Notes on Blood, Care, and Death in Multispecies Settings" (9:30). In this video essay, I employ my emplacement as a vegetarian anthropologist witnessing the killing of a non-human being to produce an understanding of more-than-human ecologies. I reflect on narratives of death, and the trouble of care and killing in multispecies settings.